On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 2:29 AM, Gaute Hope <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi,

I am trying to use javascript in synchronized fashion, by waiting in the calling thread using condition_variables and mutex (C++):

```
 void run_js () {
   /* this runs in GTK gui thread */

   webkit_web_view_run_javascript (...., callback, ...)

   /* wait for notification from callback */
 }

 void callback (GObject *, GAsyncResult *r) {
      /* non-GUI processing of result */

   /* notify run_js thread */
 }
```

However, if I wait for notifications in run_js the callback is never called. Is the JS callback somehow called from the main GTK thread?

Yes, probably.

Like GTK+ itself, WebKitGTK+ is not threadsafe and it must only be used from the main GTK+ thread. If you need to schedule some work from a secondary thread, then you need to post it to the main thread by using e.g. g_idle_add().

Michael

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